Maine lobster industry wary as warm waters suggest repeat of disastrous 2012 season

[jpak]

Source: Portland Press Herald

For those in the lobster industry, any sign of a return to the conditions of 2012 is cause for high anxiety.

Researchers say the industry needs to be prepared for that possibility because warming trends are laying the groundwork for a potential repeat of the disastrous season of four years ago.

“We learned a hard lesson in 2012,” said Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association.

Because of warm waters in the Gulf of Maine, peak harvesting started in May that year, weeks ahead of schedule. The catch jumped more than 20 percent, from 104 million pounds in 2011 to 127 million pounds in 2012. The shedding season, when lobsters lose their hard shells and grow new ones, typically happens in June and results in soft-shelled lobsters that are difficult to transport. In 2012, shedding began almost as soon as the lobstermen started pulling in traps, and extended into the fall.

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[yuiyoshida]

1. The Crab season on the Pacific Coast was delayed for a while

I couldn't buy a Crab dinner until recently, however, I suppose if I went to Fisherman's wharf there is always a Crab dinner there. They bring them down from Oregon and Washington. I have always enjoyed Crab more than lobster, but only because there is far more crab meat than Lobster. I wish we could get snow crab or Alaska King crab but its not sold here for some reason. I could get it in Vancouver BC

I am glad the Crab is back, but its disturbing to me to think our Oceans are becoming a limited resource for seafood..its so vastly huge.. yet when there are delays like this, its troubling.

[chernabog]

3. Omg

That's so sad you couldn't get your crab dinner!

[yuiyoshida]

5. By your statement below that's probably a statement

that requires a tag, well to each their own, go back to eating your prime steaks and pork chops okay?

[chernabog]

6. I don't eat animals

And I would urge others not to as well.

[yuiyoshida]

7. Well goodie for you...

enjoy your broccoli and leave the rest of us alone to chose our own foods, k? mmmmmm! SASHIMI!!!


私は日本の午前。私は佐々美を愛し、伝統が日本にあるように、常にそれを食べるようになります。

[chernabog]

8. Why should I just sit by

And not say anything when billions of living creatures are tortured, exploited, and killed every year just so humans can satisfy their tastebuds? Animal agriculture is also one of the worst things for the environment. So yeah I'm gonna say something every time.

[yuiyoshida]

9. You should sit by? Who put you in charge of the menu?

You wanta eat grass? Fine! Open up a grass restaurant! I am Asian, we eat what we want!

[chernabog]

11. Lol

You are Asian, you eat what you want? That's a new one I haven heard yet.

[yuiyoshida]

13. Yup! 100% Asian!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027586776

[chernabog]

14. ok

You are Asian and eat weird things...But animals do not want to be eaten. So why eat them if you don't have to?

[yuiyoshida]

16. watch the video

hear the words!

[chernabog]

12. Are you afraid someone's gonna take away your meat?

Many more people are now understanding how cruel it is to kill animals. Do you realize that if you stopped feeding animals that are used in agriculture, you could feed the rest of the earth many times over?

[gvstn]

34. You do realize everything you eat was alive at on time?

Plant or animal.

[chernabog]

43. The plants I eat

Don't feel pain, and grow back!

[gvstn]

44. Carrots, potatoes, do they grow back? I'm not sure.

I'm only saying that we have to eat living things in this cruel world, whether we like it or not. You can go by the central nervous system as your criteria whether or not to eat something but most of us just hope for some nutrition.

Really not trying to troll here but animal protein does sustain a body for 12 hours or so where very few vegetable based things like tofu can do the same. I love my fruits and vegetables but some meat or cheese do great work keeping my body running.

[SkyDaddy7]

25. You're making my mouth water!!!

SASHIMI!!!

[yuiyoshida]

27. check this out...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027586776

[jpak]

28. Not to worry

Global warming will kill them - and the autotrophs too.

[gvstn]

36. I only started eating lobster a few years ago.

I like them steamed and cold, just from my local supermarket. I had never really cared for them before but was served one that way and it tasted good. Now, I am a fan.

Crabs are great but now I wonder about the source. I still don't trust the Gulf seafood and the Eastern shore has gotten pretty bad too. Maybe Texas is still safe?

Never a big fan of snow or Alaskan crab but along the East coast you can usually only get the legs rather than the whole crab but from the few times I did have them, I don't remember than being very meaty for their size.

[yuiyoshida]

37. Dungeness crab is a feast and can be just as sweet as Lobster

in butter and lemon...Its my all time favorite food...

[gvstn]

39. I may have had it once in my life.

But I couldn't tell you what it tastes like.

It is rare here in the East but I will keep an eye out for it and give it another try. Do you steam it-for how long? And then just put it in a lemon butter sauce.

Having been born in Baltimore, I still gravitate to a blue crab with Old Bay as the standard crustacean.

[yuiyoshida]

40. That I couldn't tell you

I either have it at Fisherman's wharf, or have it delivered by this wonderful Chinese restaurant!

[gvstn]

41. That is what Google is for.

If I can find some Dungeness crab, I will Google for a recipe using butter and lemon. That pic in your previous post makes it look delicious.

[yuiyoshida]

42. its as great tasting as lobster

and better because there is more to eat!

[chernabog]

2. Humans do not need to eat lobster

And how horrific to be trapped in a cage, and then in many cases boiled alive. This industry can fuck off.

[yuiyoshida]

4. Yeah and I am so glad its not

up to you to chose what humans eat.

[Galileo126]

15. Yes, we humans do.

Born and raised in a sea-faring state. I eat sea arachnids.

8 legs are yummy!

ps: Fuck off back at you. (Rock on Yuiyoshida...)

[chernabog]

17. What is that need exactly?

[Galileo126]

18. It's not a "need" ... just a preference.

Which I support.

Eat your veggies, dammit.

[chernabog]

19. Oh ok

Because 2 posts up you said it was a need so I'm glad we could clear that up.

[Galileo126]

20. I'm still searching my supposed referenced to the word "need"

2 posts up.

Still white-hot as to be blinded?

Stop trolling.

[chernabog]

21. "Yes, we humans do"

Was your response when I initially said humans do not need to eat lobster.

[Galileo126]

22. I'm going out to buy some LIVE lobsters, create a demand

Just to stop this trolling bullshit.

Eat your veggies (unless plants have feelings too?)

Thanks for the idea!!

[edhopper]

23. Lobsters have the brains

of a cockroach. Finding Nemo isn't the real world.

[beerandjesus]

24. Except the lobster's brains are pretty damn tasty.....

[chernabog]

26. Lobsters feel pain.

[edhopper]

29. Most multi-celled animals do.

But are they aware of that pain, or merely having a reaction to it? biology would suggest the latter.
Putting them in the fridge, where they become unconscious, before boiling takes care of that anyway.

[chernabog]

31. Why take that risk?

You don't really care that you causing pain and suffering.

[jpak]

32. Plants are well aware of their environment

They know the length of the day and night.

They know if the air is humid or dry.

They know when a competing plant is shading them.

They know the temperature of the air and soil.

They know the amounts of water and nutrients in the soil.

They know when animals are feeding on them.

When we eat a salad - we are eating them alive.

Sick

yup

[gvstn]

35. Yup.

I always remember that John Travolta movie where he is sitting there and the tree behind him or in front of him is blowing int the wind, just casually moving its leaves. And that personified to me that plants sense their surroundings and have some level of consciousness.

Your post may have been sarcastic but I give plants some form of sympathy/gratitude when I eat them.

[jpak]

38. Plants 'can think and remember'

http://www.bbc.com/news/10598926

Plants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems.

These "electro-chemical signals" are carried by cells that act as "nerves" of the plants.

In their experiment, the scientists showed that light shone on to one leaf caused the whole plant to respond.

And the response, which took the form of light-induced chemical reactions in the leaves, continued in the dark.

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[jtuck004]

30. They don't care about any pain but their own. you are wasting your time.

I mean, look around at their neighbors, look at the country. You think these people care about anyone else's pain? And those are the same species. Think they will ever give a flying rat's ass about something they see as less than them? It's like a whole nation full of people just like what's his name, the puffy pervert with the evil hair.

You should find a better argument, and let them gnaw on their lobster until they die of thirst and hunger.

They are nice people and all - just ask them - but you should be realistic.

[edhopper]

33. So eating lobster

is equivalent to standing by as your neighbor suffers?
Wow, just wow.

[jtuck004]

45. I'm talking lobster, you're talking bait. I have other things to do. n/t